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I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER FIFTY FOUR: Three Questions
Emma's POVThe Vanity Fair Paris bureau smells like fresh coffee and old paper.The lobby is smaller than I expected. Two low couches, a reception desk, and a wall of framed magazine covers going back thirty years. A young woman at the desk looks up when we walk in. Her eyes widen for a second before she catches them, and she straightens in her chair without meaning to.Julian sits down on the couch nearest the door without being asked.I walk to the desk."I would like to see the senior editor on the floor. My name is Emma Bellamy."The receptionist's hand goes to the phone before I finish the sentence."One moment, Ms. Bellamy."She dials. She turns her body slightly away and speaks into the receiver in French too fast for me to catch every word, but I catch the ones that matter. Elle est ici. Emma Bellamy. En bas. Maintenant.She listens.She hangs up."Madame Vasseur will be down in a moment. Please."She gestures to the couch across from Julian.I go sit.Julian looks at me. He d
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER FIFTY THREE: The Redirect
Emma's POV Julian is in the car when I come out.He is in the back seat, hands folded loosely in his lap, eyes on the door of the building. When he sees me, his shoulders release by one degree that only I would notice.I get in beside him.The driver looks at me in the rearview mirror, waiting for the destination.I do not tell him back to my home."Rue Bayard," I say. "The Vanity Fair Paris bureau."The driver's eyes flick to Julian.Julian does not react.He simply looks at me, and he waits.The car pulls into traffic.We are three blocks from Bellamy Inc before Julian speaks."Emma.""Yes.""Are you going to tell me what you are doing?""I am going to the news house that published the article.""I gathered. And...?""And I am not going to Vanity Fair to ask them to retract the article.""I gathered that too, but what are you going for then?""I am going to give them a different story. Not a rebuttal, I am going to give them a story of my own. Something that goes online tonight. So
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER FIFTY TWO: The Breath On The Line
Emma's POV I let him breathe for a long moment.I do not fill the silence. I do not ask him what he wants. I do not soften the moment by giving him the first word. I stand in the empty boardroom with the article face up on the table and I listen to the man who used to be my loveless husband, the one I was handed to by our fathers in a marriage that was never mine to choose, breathe into a phone from somewhere in this city, and I let him be the one who has to speak first.He speaks."Emma."Just my name.Not Ms. Bellamy, not the careful correction he used in the boardroom. Just Emma, in a voice I have never heard him use, the voice of a man who is not performing anything because there is nothing left to perform."Liam.""I read the article.""I know.""My father told me he had gone to see you.""He did."A pause."He should not have done that without asking me.""He should not have needed to ask you."The silence that follows is the specific silence of a man absorbing a sentence he ca
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER FIFTY ONE: The File
Emma's POV The file arrives at nine forty-one, and I know before I open it that whatever is inside is going to divide my life into the part before I read it and the part after.Two copies land at the same moment, encrypted, one on Bertrand's private device and one on mine.The email is from Marcus Hale with no subject line and no message body, just an attachment sitting on the screen with the quiet weight of a document that has been prepared by a man who has been trained not to write anything he does not want read out loud in a courtroom one day.Bertrand is in the chair opposite my desk. He has been there since his phone call with Liam, and he has not spoken. He has been on his own phone quietly running the calls he said he would run, arranging the security firm, verifying the driver Adèle put at the building, moving through the professional response the way he always moves, which is thoroughly and without noise.I have been sitting behind my desk with my hands folded in front of me
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER FIFTY: The Call
Liam's POV The text arrives at eight fifty-three.I am at the desk in the suite reading a document Marcus sent me overnight, and my phone lights up on the wood beside me, and I glance at it and I stop reading.The number on the screen is not saved to my phone.But the number is one I know.I have known it for over three years. I have not called it in three years. I have not been contacted from it in three years. I have not restricted it in three years, and I have never once, in all of that time, seen it light up on my screen with a message attached to it.I pick up the phone.I open the message.Marcus is going to call you within the hour. Take the call, no matter where you are or what you are doing.I read it twice.I read it a third time.I do not respond. I do not reach for the dial to call her. I do not do any of the things the version of me from three years ago would have done, which would have been to react. I sit at the desk in the suite with her message on my screen and I let
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER FORTY NINE: The Box
Emma's POV Bertrand is standing in the doorway of my office when I arrive.He does not smile. He does not greet me. He simply steps aside and lets me in and closes the door behind us, and on my desk, in the centre where I usually place my folder, is a small brown box.Plain cardboard, no branding, and no shipping label visible from where I stand. This is the kind of box that costs nothing to buy and reveals nothing about who sent it."Bertrand...""It was delivered to reception at seven forty-two, addressed to you, and marked personal. The courier was from a legitimate service. They confirmed it came from a drop-off point in the eleventh arrondissement, paid in cash, sent by a woman who did not give a name and did not appear on any of their internal cameras because she stood outside the range while she filled out the form and handed it through the window.""Have you opened it?""No. I wanted you here first."I set my coat on the chair by the door.I walk to the desk.I stand behind it
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER FIVE: Four Tests and A Kitchen Floor
Emma's POVI am at Cara's apartment. She has gone to stay with a friend of hers so that I can have some solo space. My mother arrives at two in the afternoon with an overnight bag, a casserole dish that smells like something that can fix most things, and the expression of a woman who has been wait
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER FOUR: Clean Break
Liam's POVShe is gone by Thursday.Not just her things. Her.The apartment feels different without Emma in it and I cannot explain why in any way that would satisfy me if I try, so I do not try.I stand in the bedroom doorway and look at the cleared nightstand, the empty hooks behind the bathroom
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER THREE: The Guest Room
Emma's POVThe guest room door is slightly open.It is always slightly open. Liam never fully closes doors he considers temporarily his, like he is leaving himself an exit route in every room he occupies, which honestly tracks.I push it open and stand in the doorway for a moment.It smells like hi
I Left Broken and Fat, I Came Back His Boss With Triplets CHAPTER TWO: Divorce And A Key
Emma's POVI do not sleep.I lie in that bed doing what I have quietly mastered over the past fourteen months... existing in complete stillness while approximately nine thousand things happen loudly inside my chest.At six forty three I get up because lying there waiting for the other shoe to drop
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